MacOS 28's Discontinuation of Rosetta Support

Created by Jake Bedard, Modified on Tue, 26 May at 1:21 PM by Jake Bedard

MacOS 28's Discontinuation of Rosetta Support

When installing Smaart v8 (or Di v2) on macOS, you may receive this notification:

This notification refers to Apple's near future (2028) plans to discontinue support for Rosetta, which will impact the ability of Intel Macs to run Smaart v8 (and Di v2).

What is Rosetta?

Rosetta enables a Mac with an Apple silicon (M-series) chips to run Intel-based apps. Support for Rosetta will be discontinued beginning with macOS 28.

What does this mean for Smaart?

Smaart v8 and Smaart Di v2, being Intel-based applications, will no longer be able to run on Apple silicon Macs running macOS 28 or later. To continue using Smaart v8 (or Di v2), do not update to macOS 28. Another available option is running Smaart on a Windows machine.

Smaart v9 (Suite, RT, LE, SPL) should continue to perform normally, although we cannot guarantee full support without prior testing.

Smaart v7 and Smaart Di continue to only run on Apple machines running macOS Mojave 10.14 and older. This is due to Apple’s discontinuation of support for 32-bit applications starting with macOS Catalina 10.15.